16 April 2016

Kamen Teacher 2014 SP Review

“To save the dilapidated
field of education, Iikura of the Department of Education created the Kamen
Teacher system, a teacher allowed to use violence. Gato Koichi, a politician
working for educational reform, sent one Kamen Teacher to St. Fictional High
School to use force. However, that special teacher, Araki Gouta, had doubts
about leading with force. Will it be force that saves the ruined educational
system? Or...?” (Intro)

This special is
right after Araki Gota (Fujigaya Taisuke) loses his student, and is sent out to
Kaku Gakuin. A month ago a female student fell from the school’s rooftop,
presumed as a suicide, and because of that her boyfriend Amakawa Atsushi (Kubota
Masataka) firmly believing it was an attempted murder, the school is terrorized
by him and two of his fellow students.

When Gota arrives
he is shocked by the yellow line in the classroom, separating students and
teachers: the students are not allowed to cross it, nor are the teacher allowed
to. Of course being who he is, he crosses the line and decides to hand out
papers directly to the students, much to everyone’s surprise. When Amakawa
enters the class Gota is beat and told that all teachers are crap; which Gota
sees as a challenge, but he soon finds out that the students aren’t the real
problem…

Compared to the
drama I kind of liked this special a bit more. I don’t know if it is because of
the actors are better at acting compared to the idol/newer kind of actors in
the drama, but the overall special was very good. The idea of the ‘Kamen
Teacher’ or ‘Masked Teacher’ is a dumb idea and honestly doesn’t make sense,
but besides that the storyline is completely true to the current issues of the
educational system. Japanese High School dramas usually are about the special
cases or/and classes, but this special talks about the most current one:
teacher-student relations. The drama does it too, but there is just too much
Yankee all over that drama, it becomes over-seen. If you have watched the drama
and liked it, this special will be a nice treat. Though if you haven’t, it’ll
still be okay to watch.